In theory, poverty reduction is associated with economic growth and equal access to opportunities for all citizens, regardless of their age, gender and income. Pakistan has reduced its poverty headcount by nearly 66% between 2002–2016, despite poor gov- ernance, weak institutions, mediocre...

The economic cooperation and interdependence among the countries is accomplished by trade, aid, and investment. Among these foreign aid plays a significant role in the socio-economic development of emerging and developing economies. The most common type of foreign aid is Official Development...

Bangladesh’s growing foreign aid has sparked controversy over whether it affects the country’s economic performance. This review assesses foreign aid’s influence on the country’s economic growth with annual data covering the 1989–2018 period. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)...

Bangladesh’s growing foreign aid has sparked controversy over whether it affects the country’s economic performance. This review assesses foreign aid’s influence on the country’s economic growth with annual data covering the 1989–2018 period. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)...

In this paper, we study the effectiveness of the first large-scale unilateral trade concessions as foreign aid for disaster relief, i.e., EU tariff waivers on goods heavily exported by Pakistan, which was severely hit by the 2010 floods. Using a triple-difference approach and a synthetic control...

This study investigates the effects of aid grants on inclusive growth in 37 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1984-2018. Grant aid is decomposed into aid grants and technical cooperation grants. Two inclusive growth indicators are used namely: gross domestic product (GDP) per capita...

Indeed, China's ascent is significantly changing the landscape in aid-donor and aid-recipient relationship for African countries, despite the changes, empirical studies on the determinant and motive is lacking. Therefore, this paper examines the determinants of China's financial aid to oil/...

International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with "no strings attached," a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid,...

This paper assesses the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). The effects of Total Net Official Development Assistance (NODA), NODA from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and NODA...

This paper integrates two main strands of the aid-development nexus in assessing whether institutional thresholds matter in the effectiveness of foreign aid on institutional development in 53 African countries over the period 1996-2010. Eight government quality indicators are employed: rule of...